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Kiffin Rockwell: ‘Aristocrat of the Air”

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36478
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The author gives the story of Kiffin Yates Rockwell, of Asheville who was the first American to volunteer for French service in WWI. He was a part of the American Escadrille (squadron of pilots) and was the first member of his unit and the first American pilot to shoot down an enemy plane.
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